Desert Spider - Syspira

Moved

Moved from Spiders.

… marshal hedin, 19 July, 2009 - 10:19pm

Thank you very much

Marshal!

… Lynette Schimming, 19 July, 2009 - 10:52pm

Lynette, should some

or all of these be unlinked?

… john and jane balaban, 19 July, 2009 - 11:03pm

I took care of it

I also frassed a couple of duplicates yesterday.

For reference, this image was linked to:

… Chuck Entz, 19 July, 2009 - 11:22pm

Ghost Spider?

Just throwing that out there as a possibility. I've never seen one with this coloring. It does have similar hairy legs to this one:

… Lynette Schimming, 19 July, 2009 - 12:26pm

Some approximately similar images

here

, but....

… john and jane balaban, 7 July, 2009 - 5:23pm

John & Jane

Where are you guys that the spiders appear so similar, I was looking closly at the one I found it seems to resemble a tarantula, The hair, the structure of the legs and how they meet the thorax. I hope Im not making a moron of myself. Thanks again. Ill post more as they come along...-Rev

… Eduardo Cruz, 18 July, 2009 - 1:06pm

We're in the Midwest

so we're really lost when trying to understand these southwestern spiders that we've never seen. Hope someone comes along who knows these guys!

… john and jane balaban, 18 July, 2009 - 5:01pm

A little bit similar

this would be another family to check. Thanks.

Checked Steve Lew's list for CA, and he doesn't even list that family, which seems odd to me.

… Lynette Schimming, 7 July, 2009 - 8:36pm

Are we looking at the same checklist?

True, it's not listed on the main page, but you'll find a couple of species of Pisauridae in the LOWER (ie 3-clawed)RTA CLADE page.

Of course, neither species includes Indio Hills in its listed range, but a checklist like this can't begin to be complete for such a huge state. There are probably a good number of undocumented Arizona species in those vast desert areas.

***update***
Oops! I see the thumbnail is for Ctenidae. Never mind...

… Chuck Entz, 19 July, 2009 - 2:24am

Not sure

I want to say it's a type of funnel web spider, but I'm wondering why I can't see the spinnerets. Also my first impression was false wolf, but I can't make that work either. I'm still looking....

Update, I asked Rod Crawford and he said he'd need a better look at the eyes to even guess family on this one.

Are there any more shots???

… Lynette Schimming, 5 July, 2009 - 12:15pm

More Shots

Unfortunatly this was the only useable photo I took, but they are running around all over the place im sure to find another. Ill try to take some pictures of its eyes. It isnt a funnel web, I always find them runing around much like the camel spiders which are also very common here. There are to funnel webs in our area Im very familier with might be the same species but not sure, they are either black or brown and have the distict funnel shaped web, but they are very stocky and have short legs relative to there abdomen and thorax. Where as this spider, has very long legs and I ususally layed out in a flat posture until distrurbed. Ive seen them the size of silver dollars from leg to leg. Dont know if that helps. The biggest I have seen was about 2-2 1/2 inchs in width. -Ed

… Eduardo Cruz, 7 July, 2009 - 4:28pm

Nursery Web Spider

maybe. I'll be looking forward to your new pics. See this article for the best spider shots for ID purposes.

… Lynette Schimming, 7 July, 2009 - 4:38pm